Short list of turtle names… winners announced!

• Jurabi – ‘Because it is the first place I saw turtles with my mum’ (34%, 312 Votes)
• Ningles – ‘Being born on the shores of the Ningaloo Reef I think it is appropriate for them to have a name that relates back to their birth place!’ (15%, 134 Votes)
• Budgial – ‘It's an Aboriginal name for sea turtle from a popular Indigenous story about the turtle, the goanna and the fish’ (11%, 104 Votes)
• Myrtle – ‘Because Yertle would be too obvious’; ‘it has class’; ‘Well of course it rhymes with turtle but it's also a girls name and it reminds me of lemon myrtle' (11%, 103 Votes)
• Beatrix – ‘The Latin origin of this name is Viatrix, a feminine form of the Late Latin name Viator which meant "voyager, traveller'. The B associates the name with being blessed, so the modern name (8%, 77 Votes)
• Noorook – ‘It means Egg in the WA Noongar Language. From the web site Noongarculture.org.au’ (8%, 74 Votes)
• Cleopatra – ‘She had beautifully made-up eyes. These sea turtles also have beautiful eyes. They look ethereal’ (5%, 49 Votes)
• Shadow – ‘Turtles are such graceful gentle gliders in the underwater realm … etc.’ (3%, 30 Votes)
• Biddi - ‘I saw my first turtle near the Tantabiddi Jetty last year’ (2%, 17 Votes)
• Diamond – ‘I like this name because the shape on the turtles shell is like a diamond’ (1%, 12 Votes)

Total Voters: 665